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So many Jews went on this year’s annual Harley “Route 62 Rally” that they even organised a Shabbos dinner in Montagu. A stalwart of the event,...
Rabbi Mel Hecht clutches his black coffee and paces in front of the Dunkin' Donuts just down the road from the Red Rock Casino in Las...
It’s a matter of dispute as to whether “Jew-friendly” Antonin Scalia, who died last Saturday, was the American Supreme Court’s most conservative jurist. Some think Clarence...
Israel’s most senior living statesman, Shimon Peres, immediate past-president, twice former prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be in Johannesburg for one night only,...
Despite the confusing title, “Left, right and the safe spaces between them” and the subtitle: “I have never been a great fan of labels. Well, shoes...
EMBASSY FURIOUS: Dep-Ambassador Freeman told JR Online today: "For BDS hatred is far more important than helping SA citizens. Yet again the lies of the radical...
For the first time in South Africa, four choirs will come together in Johannesburg to perform the works of 19th century German Jewish composer Louis Lewandowski...
Last week’s Jewish Report quoted a poll conducted by Midgam Consultants and Research Institute that 25 per cent of Israelis fear another Holocaust and that 29...
“When there was no Jewish justice on the Supreme Court,” Antonin “Nino” Scalia told me: ‘I considered myself the Jewish justice.’
The Reform movement had a major victory in Israel after the Israeli Cabinet recently made the decision to allocate a part of the Western Wall for...
The Press Ombudsman, on behalf of the SA Press Council, last week upheld a complaint of incorrect reporting against The Star newspaper jointly lodged by the...
Newly-(re)appointed Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan will present the National Budget to Parliament on February 24. He will know that the appalling events that led to...
Like so many other concerned South Africans, I made a point of watching the State President address the nation last week Thursday evening. It was a...
The State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma in Parliament last week Thursday evening, despite the pomp and ceremony surrounding the event and the...
The cynicism of politics and self-serving public officials was given a welcome slap in the face in the past two Tuesdays in South Africa and Israel....
With all the arguments for women to participate more fully in halachic religious practices, Commonwealth Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has launched a groundbreaking qualification for Jewish...
This recipe was originally published on The Nosher, a 70 Faces Media property. The Nosher food blog offers a dazzling array of new and classic Jewish...
Recent research reflects concerns over traditional pedagogy as a viable response to 21st century learning. Globalisation and gigantic advances in information technology have brought about changes...
For Moshe Meyer (his Hebrew name - he does not want to disclose the name he uses in South Africa), Yom Kippur 1973 was a day...
I've never been a great fan of labels. Well, shoes notwithstanding….
Democratic presidential hopeful in the US, Bernie Sanders, although a Jew, is an anti-capitalist who is opposed to economic growth, if it increases economic inequality.
The son of Hungarian refugees, Shani Krebs, in spite of his loving family, had a difficult childhood and, while serving in the former SA Defence Force,...
The hearing into sports scientist Professor Tim Noakes’ conduct at the Health Professions Council of South Africa has focussed public attention once again on the Banting...
I would like to respond to Eli Knight’s letter in last week’s Jewish Report, on Progressive Jewry. As Moses is about to climb Mount Sinai to...
The tumultuous events of the past few months lent an additional degree of importance to this year’s State of the Nation (SONA) address. Among those who...
The contention by Eli Knight in last week’s Jewish Report that Orthodox Judaism is the only true reflection of Jewish religion, refers.
A horrendous motor accident 30 years ago left Pearl Seigel badly injured and paralysed. At the time a promising accounting student, she has had to make...
We are in another Olympic year when we once again look to see how much Jewish representation, other than the Israeli team, will be in Rio...
Last Sunday, Yeshiva College learners, parents, friends and family of the late Marion Falk came together to welcome a brand new Sefer Torah in her memory,...
SA JEWISH REPORT STAFF New study: Sperm quality damaged by cell phones HAIFA – A groundbreaking study suggests that regularly talking on a cell phone...
As always, there is lots going on for the Jewish communities around the country. Contact local leadership for additional activities
In Tetzaveh, G-d commands Moshe about the laws concerning the clothes of the Kohanim and their initiation ceremony.
My name is Gila Efrat and I am 17. I am proudly part of Netzer and very passionate about my Judaism.
Ada Plett celebrated her 100th birthday in the beautiful garden of Sunshine Circle at Our Parents Home last week Thursday.
Rabbi Julia Margolis writes a letter taking exception to a letter by Ali Knight last week My first response to Eli Knight’s letter in last week’s...
Chief rabbi Warren Goldstein (pictured) was singled out to sit among the Judges and Speakers of Provincial legislatures rather that with other religious leaders in the...
Last week scientists said they had been able to directly detect the existence of gravitational waves, identified in ground-breaking “Theory of Relativity” by renowned Jewish scientist...
Malchalnik Issie Granoth passed away in Cape Town recently at the age of 91. He spent most of his life both in Israel and Africa as...
The Drom Afrika set sail from Cape Town for Palestine in 1947. The ship had been procured by the Jewish Maritime League and converted from a...
The days of a man on a bicycle throwing your newspaper over the fence into your driveway, may be numbered, says Professor Anton Harber, Caxton Professor...
